Xref: utzoo news.lists:535 news.groups:5043 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!husc6!purdue!decwrl!reid From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid) Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups Subject: TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY PER-READER COST (JUL 88) Message-ID: <14302@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: 1 Aug 88 10:04:18 GMT Sender: reid@decwrl.DEC.COM Organization: DEC Western Research Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif., USA Lines: 54 Approved: reid@decwrl.dec.com TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY PER-READER COST A companion posting explains the statistics and the algorithms that produced them. +-- Estimated total number of people who read the group, worldwide. | +-- Actual number of readers in sampled population | | +-- Propagation: how many sites receive this group at all | | | +-- Recent traffic (messages per month) | | | | +-- Recent traffic (kilobytes per month) | | | | | +-- Crossposting percentage | | | | | | +-- Cost ratio: $US/month/reader | | | | | | | +-- Share: % of newsreaders | | | | | | | | who read this group. V V V V V V V V 1 4800 434 92% 222 4959.1 0% 1.80 2.3% comp.mail.maps 2 5800 525 85% 1463 3506.5 34% 0.97 2.8% talk.politics.misc 3 2000 183 85% 453 1207.3 2% 0.97 1.0% talk.origins 4 4600 416 96% 42 2083.2 8% 0.82 2.2% comp.lsi 5 2700 248 78% 648 1481.2 43% 0.81 1.3% talk.politics.mideast 6 5400 490 90% 919 2157.9 6% 0.68 2.6% soc.culture.china 7 3000 269 84% 433 1126.3 16% 0.60 1.4% talk.religion.misc 8 2000 178 85% 198 752.9 6% 0.60 0.9% talk.politics.theory 9 6500 592 98% 529 1937.1 2% 0.55 3.1% comp.os.vms 10 4800 439 88% 661 1499.2 3% 0.52 2.3% rec.arts.comics 11 6200 562 87% 826 1722.6 10% 0.46 3.0% soc.motss 12 4500 406 87% 732 1264.4 0% 0.46 2.1% rec.sport.baseball 13 6200 565 89% 889 1552.3 14% 0.42 3.0% rec.aviation 14 4600 414 94% 445 1096.0 2% 0.42 2.2% rec.games.frp 15 9000 812 80% 2119 2419.2 2% 0.41 4.3% talk.bizarre 16 5100 459 93% 560 1099.8 1% 0.38 2.4% soc.culture.indian 17 4400 398 94% 604 948.0 2% 0.38 2.1% rec.music.gdead 18 6800 617 98% 181 1319.0 0% 0.36 3.3% comp.os.minix 19 2800 253 87% 22 593.8 0% 0.35 1.3% comp.binaries.apple2 20 16000 1491 98% 57 2909.1 0% 0.34 7.9% comp.sources.games 21 2200 195 94% 94 411.7 0% 0.33 1.0% rec.games.go 22 4100 372 88% 415 765.4 1% 0.31 2.0% rec.arts.tv.soaps 23 1800 167 59% 143 500.5 35% 0.31 0.9% alt.individualism 24 15000 1350 87% 1567 2704.2 2% 0.30 7.1% soc.singles 25 11000 1024 94% 1080 1838.5 16% 0.30 5.4% rec.music.misc 26 4100 368 93% 320 688.4 14% 0.30 1.9% soc.culture.jewish 27 5900 534 87% 627 1053.9 1% 0.29 2.8% rec.bicycles 28 1900 168 98% 11 297.7 0% 0.29 0.9% comp.sys.masscomp 29 3600 324 88% 350 575.8 2% 0.27 1.7% rec.motorcycles 30 1600 144 95% 13 235.6 0% 0.27 0.8% comp.theory.info-retrieval 31 260 24 55% 1 67.7 0% 0.27 0.1% rec.mag.fsfnet 32 5800 530 94% 326 834.4 15% 0.26 2.8% rec.music.synth 33 12000 1071 97% 52 1552.4 0% 0.24 5.6% comp.binaries.mac 34 3300 299 96% 15 436.2 0% 0.24 1.6% rec.mag.otherrealms 35 11000 1036 96% 744 1410.1 8% 0.23 5.5% comp.sys.amiga 36 5600 505 95% 364 734.6 8% 0.23 2.7% rec.ham-radio 37 1700 156 85% 60 248.0 0% 0.23 0.8% soc.religion.christian 38 1700 158 93% 45 214.0 0% 0.22 0.8% soc.culture.greek 39 660 60 47% 5 166.7 0% 0.22 0.3% alt.sources.amiga 40 2100 193 57% 188 409.2 1% 0.21 1.0% alt.sca